# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 59
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1161 "2014-07-01T13:50:20Z")
In three separate instances in 2013, traditional native Hawaiian dancers assaulted tourists who asked why they weren’t using Hula Hoops. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1162 "2014-07-01T13:55:19Z")
The Hula Hoop was invented by a fourteen-year-old girl from Olalla, Washington. She originally named them Hulalla Hoops and made them by hand from dried blackberry vines. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1163 "2014-07-01T13:57:46Z")
Her name was Julia Chisbane and she now is the 14th wealthiest woman in the world, behind Angela Merkel. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1164 "2014-07-01T14:01:47Z")
Blackberry juice is a key ingredient in the cocktail Inner Harbor. It also contains: crab broth and vodka. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1165 "2014-07-01T14:05:19Z")
Inez Harbor created the Inner Harbor cocktail, often dropping a live crab into one. She also created several variations, including the Inner American Harbor cocktail, which contained red strawberry, white cranberry, and blue blueberry juices, along with crab broth and vodka. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1166 "2014-07-01T14:12:34Z")
The most popular of Inez Harbor’s many Inner Harbor cocktails is the Inner American Scraped From the Bottom of the Harbor cocktail. The ingredients vary with the rise and fall of the tide, but people “in the know” crowd the bar during Horseshoe Crab breeding season. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1167 "2014-07-01T14:21:28Z")
The X-rated Inner American Scraped From the Bottom of the Harbor cocktail (also called an Xiasfbh Cocktail) features two crabs having sex in the bottom of the punchbowl containing the drink. It is the world’s fastest acting, longing lasting version of Viagra. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1168 "2014-07-01T14:41:38Z")
Viagara was originally cultivated from a vine that only grows in Botswana. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1169 "2014-07-01T14:42:52Z")
Viagara was originally cultivated from a vine indigenous to Botswana. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1170 "2014-07-01T14:44:24Z")
Nobody knows why Botswana traditions require that the natives repeat everything they say… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1171 "2014-07-01T14:55:27Z")
Tradition? It’s their diet: Botswanans eat a large number of Repeater berries every day. Repeater berries are also the main ingredient in Viagra. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1172 "2014-07-01T14:56:57Z")
Nobody know why Botswana traditions require that the natives repeat everything they say… I’m from Botswana and I don’t do that. I’m from Botswana and I don’t do that. Ninja’d, but I’m leaving it. Please reply to Burpo’s post. Please reply to Burpo’s post. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1173 "2014-07-01T15:03:53Z")
Repeater berry juice are used in Inez Harbor’s Inner Inner Harbor Harbor Cocktail. Along with 200 proof vodka and reduced crab broth. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1174 "2014-07-01T15:12:38Z")
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was drained a few years ago, completely lined with concrete, and is now safe for swimming. Balto poobahs expect a booming, though wet, tourist business. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1175 "2014-07-01T15:26:53Z")
The first man-made sonic boom occurred underwater in 1799, when the mighty prototype of a submarine, Prof. Luther A. Pepperwinkle’s _the Naughty Lass_, reversed the polarity on its hypermodulating overthruster and smashed through the water at a little over Mach I, shortly followed by its smashing into the White Cliffs of Dover. It was a closed casket funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1176 "2014-07-01T16:13:25Z")
The Whit Cliffs of Dover are not actually white. They are a very light shade of teal. They are also not as high as they seem from photographs but, because of an optical illusion produced while flying over them, they only seem high but are actually only three feet tall. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1177 "2014-07-01T16:25:42Z")
The filming of \*Gulliver’s Travels \*was brought to an abrupt halt when the crew arrived on location at the White Cliffs of Dover for the famous beach scene. No amount of camera trickery could overcome the fact that the actors portraying the residents of Lilliput towered over the cliffs. During the extensive and frantic attempts to make the scene work, Ted Danson suffered second-degree sunburn on the exposed parts of his body and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1178 "2014-07-01T17:40:12Z")
Keeping it to scale, he was airlifted using a fleet of remote-controlled helicopters. A great PR stunt, but Mr. Danson himself did not care much for it. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1179 "2014-07-01T18:03:18Z")
Great leaps of technology in remote control and drone aircraft were made after a giant, presumably lifeless, robot was found under the ice. Scientists are working on deciphering its secrets now, confident that nothing bad could possibly come of it. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1180 "2014-07-01T18:14:50Z")
The famous ice robot, nicknamed “Iza Ass” was a disappointment to the hundreds of scientists who worked for years to uncover its secrets, only to find it was an abandoned ice sculpture commissioned by Kim Kardashian for her wedding dinner. She had rejected it for air bubbles found in various areas of the robot’s body, which she claimed detracted from the aesthetic she was trying to create. She called it a “bubble bott”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=60)